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By Meggy Date: 2001 Aug 16 Comment on this Work [[2001.08.16.00.02.30782]] |
| I untied my sash, kicked off my sandals, tossed my skirt into the corner and loosened the clasp that held my curls in a ponytail. My skin was shivering, and laughing. We were too close to see one another, each absorbed in our urgent rite, enveloped in our shared warmth and scent. I opened to you, your hands on my twisting waist, my hands impatient. I pressed against you, I explored you, I scaled you, I fastened you with my invincilbe legs, I said a thousand times, come, my lips on yours. In the final instant we glimpsed absolute solitude, each lost in a blazing chasm, but soon we returned from the far side of that fire to find ourselves embraced amid a riot of pillows beneath white mosquito netting. You brushed back my hair to look into my eyes. I sat beside you, my legs pulled up to my chin and my silk shawl over one shoulder in the silence of the night that had barely begun. That is how I want you to remember me...in stillness. |